Design and Control of High-Precision Motion Systems

A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision Actuators".

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School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: control theory and applications; motion control systems; mobile robots
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
Interests: precision motion control; human–robot interaction; industrial automation
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
Interests: mechanical system dynamics; sliding mode control; advanced robots; high-precision motion control; vehicle dynamics and control

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper(s) to our Special Issue on “Design and Control of High-Precision Motion Systems” in Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). Both original research and review articles are welcome. Deadline: 31 December 2021.

Driven by the increasing demand from industry, high-precision motion systems require new design methods on mechanisms, actuators, sensors, and control algorithms to achieve faster response, higher repeatability, more compact size, and lower cost. Advances in high-precision motion systems will make them applicable to a wider range of industrial processes such as nanofabrication machines, hard disk drives, 3D printing devices, scanning and imaging systems, etc. This will also bring economic benefits in terms of product quality, manufacturing efficiency, functionality, and reduced cost. This Special Issue invites contributions from the aspects of mechanism design, system identification, control and estimation, and actuator and sensor design relevant to high-precision motion systems.

Dr. Jinchuan Zheng
Dr. Hai Wang
Dr. Silu Chen
Dr. Ke Shao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • System modelling 
  • Control and estimation 
  • Mechanism design 
  • Microactuators 
  • Motion sensors 
  • Vibration control 
  • Motion control applications

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19 pages, 6706 KiB  
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A Novel Resolution Scheme of Time-Energy Optimal Trajectory for Precise Acceleration Controlled Industrial Robot Using Neural Networks
by Renluan Hou, Jianwei Niu, Yuliang Guo, Tao Ren, Xiaolong Yu, Bing Han and Qun Ma
Actuators 2022, 11(5), 130; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11050130 - 3 May 2022
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The surging popularity of adopting industrial robots in smart manufacturing has led to an increasing trend in the simultaneous improvement of the energy costs and operational efficiency of motion trajectory. Motivated by this, multi-objective trajectory planning subject to kinematic and dynamic constraints at [...] Read more.
The surging popularity of adopting industrial robots in smart manufacturing has led to an increasing trend in the simultaneous improvement of the energy costs and operational efficiency of motion trajectory. Motivated by this, multi-objective trajectory planning subject to kinematic and dynamic constraints at multiple levels has been considered as a promising paradigm to achieve the improvement. However, most existing model-based multi-objective optimization algorithms tend to come out with infeasible solutions, which results in non-zero initial and final acceleration. Popular commercial software toolkits applied to solve multi-objective optimization problems in actual situations are mostly based on the fussy conversion of the original objective and constraints into strict convex functions or linear functions, which could induce a failure of duality and obtain results exceeding limits. To address the problem, this paper proposes a time-energy optimization model in a phase plane based on the Riemann approximation method and a solution scheme using an iterative learning algorithm with neural networks. We present forward-substitution interpolation functions as basic functions to calculate indirect kinematic and dynamic expressions introduced in a discrete optimization model with coupled constraints. Moreover, we develop a solution scheme of the complex trajectory optimization problem based on artificial neural networks to generate candidate solutions for each iteration without any conversion into a strict convex function, until minimum optimization objectives are achieved. Experiments were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed optimization solution scheme by comparing it with state-of-the-art trajectory optimization methods using Yalmip software. The proposed method was observed to improve the acceleration control performance of the solved robot trajectory by reducing accelerations exceeding values of joints 2, 3 and 5 by 3.277 rad/s2, 26.674 rad/s2, and 7.620 rad/s2, respectively. Full article
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Development of Sliding Mode Controller Based on Internal Model Controller for Higher Precision Electro-Optical Tracking System
by Bing Zhang, Kang Nie, Xinglong Chen and Yao Mao
Actuators 2022, 11(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11010016 - 7 Jan 2022
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The electro-optical tracking system (ETS) on moving platforms is affected by the vibration of the moving carrier, the wind resistance torque in motion, the uncertainty of mechanisms and the nonlinear friction between frames and other disturbances, which may lead to the instability of [...] Read more.
The electro-optical tracking system (ETS) on moving platforms is affected by the vibration of the moving carrier, the wind resistance torque in motion, the uncertainty of mechanisms and the nonlinear friction between frames and other disturbances, which may lead to the instability of the electro-optical tracking platform. Sliding mode control (SMC) has strong robustness to system disturbances and unknown dynamic external signals, which can enhance the disturbance suppression ability of ETSs. However, the strong robustness of SMC requires greater switching gain, which causes serious chattering. At the same time, the tracking accuracy of SMC has room for further improvement. Therefore, in order to solve the chattering problem of SMC and improve the tracking accuracy of SMC, an SMC controller based on internal model control (IMC) is proposed. Compared with traditional SMC, the proposed method can be used to suppress the strongest disturbance with the smallest switching gain, effectively solving the chattering problem of the SMC, while improving the tracking accuracy of the system. In addition, to reduce the adverse influence of sensor noise on the control effect, lifting wavelet threshold de-noising is introduced into the control structure to further improve the tracking accuracy of the system. The simulation and experimental results verify the superiority of the proposed control method. Full article
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Effect of Forced Liquid Cooling on the Voltage/Charge Displacement Characteristics of Stacked Piezoelectric Actuators during High-Frequency Drive
by Rina Nishida, Jianpeng Zhong and Tadahiko Shinshi
Actuators 2021, 10(11), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10110297 - 10 Nov 2021
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Piezoelectric stack actuators (PESAs) are widely used in applications requiring a fast response, high resolution, and high accuracy. The self-heating of a PESA during continuous drive with a large amplitude at high frequencies can change its voltage displacement and charge displacement characteristics. These [...] Read more.
Piezoelectric stack actuators (PESAs) are widely used in applications requiring a fast response, high resolution, and high accuracy. The self-heating of a PESA during continuous drive with a large amplitude at high frequencies can change its voltage displacement and charge displacement characteristics. These changes can lead to a loss of stability and inaccurate PESA positioning systems. In this paper, we confirmed that by using our proposed forced liquid cooling, the changes to the dynamic characteristics and the impedance of a PESA due to the fact of self-heating could be reduced. Voltage displacement curve measurements at 10 kHz demonstrated that with natural heat dissipation, the amplitude of PESA increased by 15% due to the self-heating compared to the amplitude measured at the start of driving but only by 3% with forced liquid cooling. The displacement-to-charge ratio decreased by 12% compared to that at room temperature with natural heat dissipation, while it increased by 1% during forced liquid cooling. In the measured frequency response of the voltage displacement transfer function, the increased temperature changed the gain and phase of the first and secondary vibration modes above 20 kHz with natural heat dissipation. Forced liquid cooling also reduced the variations in the frequency response of the voltage displacement transfer function. Full article
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Direct Thrust Force Control of Primary Permanent Magnet Linear Motor Based on Improved Extended State Observer and Model-Free Adaptive Predictive Control
by Xiuping Wang, Shunyu Yao, Chunyu Qu, Yiming Wang, Zhangwei Xu, Wenbin Huang and Hai Wang
Actuators 2022, 11(10), 270; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11100270 - 22 Sep 2022
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A model-free adaptive predictive control algorithm based on an improved extended state observer (IESO) is proposed to solve the problem that the primary permanent magnet linear motor is susceptible to time-varying parameters and unknown disturbances. Firstly, a model-free adaptive control algorithm based on [...] Read more.
A model-free adaptive predictive control algorithm based on an improved extended state observer (IESO) is proposed to solve the problem that the primary permanent magnet linear motor is susceptible to time-varying parameters and unknown disturbances. Firstly, a model-free adaptive control algorithm based on compact format is designed to achieve high control precision of the system and reduce thrust fluctuation, only through the input/output data of the system. Because the traditional model-free adaptive control is too sensitive to the internal parameters of the controller, a combination of model-free adaptive control and predictive control is further developed. By predicting the data for a future time in advance, the sensitivity to the internal parameters of the controller is reduced and the control performance is further improved. Since the load change and other nonlinear disturbances in practical applications have a great impact on the control effect of the system, an improved extended state observer is further used to compensate for the impact of nonlinear disturbances on the control system. In addition, the stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed. Comparable simulation results clearly demonstrate the good tracking performance and strong robustness of the proposed control. Full article
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Motion Trajectories Prediction of Lower Limb Exoskeleton Based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Networks
by Bin Ren, Zhiqiang Zhang, Chi Zhang and Silu Chen
Actuators 2022, 11(3), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11030073 - 26 Feb 2022
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A typical man–machine coupling system could provide the wearer a coordinated and assisted movement by the lower limb exoskeleton. The process of cooperative movement relies on the accurate perception of the wearer’s human movement information and the accurate planning and control of the [...] Read more.
A typical man–machine coupling system could provide the wearer a coordinated and assisted movement by the lower limb exoskeleton. The process of cooperative movement relies on the accurate perception of the wearer’s human movement information and the accurate planning and control of the joint movement of the lower limb exoskeleton. In this paper, a neural network and a Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) machine learning model method is proposed to predict the actual movement trajectory of the human body’s lower limbs. Then a wearable joint angle measurement device was designed for gait trajectory prediction, which can be used for predictive control through machine learning methods. The experimental results show that the LSTM model can accurately predict the gait trajectory with an average mean square error. This method has practical significance for prediction the trajectory of the lower limb exoskeleton. Full article
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High Precision Motion Control of Electro-Mechanical Launching Platform with Modeling Uncertainties: A New Integrated Error Constraint Asymptotic Design
by Zhenle Dong, Yinghao Yang, Geqiang Li and Zheng Zhang
Actuators 2021, 10(12), 331; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10120331 - 15 Dec 2021
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For the demands of a high precision motion control of an uncertain electro-mechanical launching platform, a novel integrated error constraint asymptotic control in the presence of parametric uncertainties and uncertain disturbance is proposed, of which the barrier function method and a continuous asymptotic [...] Read more.
For the demands of a high precision motion control of an uncertain electro-mechanical launching platform, a novel integrated error constraint asymptotic control in the presence of parametric uncertainties and uncertain disturbance is proposed, of which the barrier function method and a continuous asymptotic control design are integrated for the first time. The former technique can effectively avoid excessive tracking errors at the transient phase, which is caused by the disturbance and the large uncertain system parameters’ deviation between the initial estimated value and the actual value, by selecting a proper barrier threshold, while the latter technique can handle the uncertain disturbance to achieve asymptotic tracking. A rigorous stability analysis is given to illustrate the theoretical performance. In addition, as a supplementary measure, repetitive control is employed to estimate and compensate the possible periodic-like disturbance under certain conditions. Two experimental cases on a prototype of a launching platform demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller. Full article
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Friction Parameters Dynamic Change and Compensation for a Novel Dual-Drive Micro-Feeding System
by Ziteng Lu, Xianying Feng, Zhe Su, Yandong Liu and Ming Yao
Actuators 2022, 11(8), 236; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11080236 - 17 Aug 2022
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This paper introduces a novel dual-drive micro-feeding system (DDMS) to obtain precise micro-feed synthetic motion by rotating both the screw and the nut, which eliminates the effects of nonlinear friction at low micro-feeding speeds and has good resistance to external disturbances. For the [...] Read more.
This paper introduces a novel dual-drive micro-feeding system (DDMS) to obtain precise micro-feed synthetic motion by rotating both the screw and the nut, which eliminates the effects of nonlinear friction at low micro-feeding speeds and has good resistance to external disturbances. For the DDMS system, firstly, the frictional force of the screw–ball–nut contact surface is analyzed, and the dynamic system model based on the unique frictional coupling model is established for the DDMS. Secondly, a velocity squared term is added to the Stribeck model to characterize the influence of the frictional coupling on the system. The correctness of the modified model is verified through experiments and frictional parameters identification by combining with the genetic algorithm (GA). The dynamic trend of the frictional parameters with different speed combinations is studied, and the method of fitting parameters using the modified Stribeck model is proposed. Finally, the DDMS three closed-loop error compensation model and the proportional derivative position controller with the friction feedforward compensator are put forward to realize the accurate position-tracking function. Experiment results show that the method reduces the average tracking error by about 60% compared to the conventional PD controller. Full article
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Servo Robust Control of Uncertain Mechanical Systems: Application in a Compressor/PMSM System
by Qiang Zhang, Rongrong Yu, Chenming Li, Ye-Hwa Chen and Jieying Gu
Actuators 2022, 11(2), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11020042 - 28 Jan 2022
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High-speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) systems have been widely used in industry and other fields for their advantages of having a simple structure, low processing cost and high efficiency. At present, the control precision of PMSM is required to be higher and [...] Read more.
High-speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) systems have been widely used in industry and other fields for their advantages of having a simple structure, low processing cost and high efficiency. At present, the control precision of PMSM is required to be higher and higher, but it faces two major challenges. The first is that the PMSM system possesses (possibly fast) time-varying uncertainty. The second is that there exist nonlinear portions in the PMSM system, such as nonlinear elasticity, etc. To resolve these challenges, a novel performance measure β^ is introduced as a dynamic depiction of the constraint-following error, and a new robust control design is proposed based on β^. While this control renders guaranteed performance regardless of uncertainty, an optimal design of a control parameter is further pursued. This inquiry is summed up as a semi-infinite constrained optimization problem. After the induction of the necessary condition, the candidate solutions can be identified. These are further screened by a sufficient condition, which results in the actual solution. To verify the effectiveness of the control design, the compressor powered by a super high-speed PMSM system is simulated, and its performance is discussed. Full article
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